CURRENT MISSION
Travel until I am a different person.

ABOUT ME
Hey there, I am Dan, 24 years old student from the Czech Republic. I study finance at the University of Economics in Prague, currently visiting the University of Washington in Seattle as an exchange student. I love swimming and going to a cinema. I am interested in history, sociology and psychology (neuroscience and topics of mind and brain in general), philosophy, technology, science in general (big fan of sci-fi movies), mysticism and languages. I like to discuss everything free of prejudice. I smile all the time :)

PHILOSOPHY
"My foes will become nothing.
My friends will become nothing.
I too will become nothing.
Likewise all will become nothing.
Just like a dream experience,
Whatever things I enjoy
Will become a memory.
Whatever has passed will not be seen again."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is." - Marcel Proust

Interests

• running
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano
• swimming
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Muse, Awolnation, Patrick Wolf, Oh Land, Sia, Lorde, MIKA, Hans Zimmer, Robyn, Regina Spektor, System Of A Down, Kanye West, ZAZ

Movies:
The Fountain, Black Swan, The Tree of Life, The New World, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Duchess, The Imitation Game, Anna Karenina, Gosford Park, Pride and Prejudice, The Young Victoria, Atonement, Onegin,
Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, The Butterfly Effect, Mr. Nobody, Another World, Kongen av Bastøy, Donnie Darko, Equilibrium, Gone Girl, The Lovely Bones, Ex Machine, What Dream May Come, Les Amours imaginaires, Tron, El Laberinto del Fauno, A Beautiful Mind, Margin Call, The Theory of Everything, I Origins, Melancholia

TV shows:
The Tudors, The Borgias, The White Queen, Wolf Hall, The Pillars of the Earth, Rome, Downton Abbey, Forsyte Saga, The Big Bang Theory, House of Cards, Stargate, Vikings, Game of Thrones

Books:
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman), Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust (Viktor Frankl), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), R.U.R. (Karel Čapek), Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I run a half marathon in 1 hour 47 minutes.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you czech and play on piano.